Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Authority on new technology and communication. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

Industry 10

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 10

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Almost any enterprise you can think of, no matter the industry or sector, is trying (or being pressured by competitors) to use new technology to harness the vast new oceans of data being generated by smartphones, sensors, digital cameras, GPS devices, and myriad other sources of information originating from customers and markets.

Technology 8

Technology Metrics Budgeting CIO 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2014

Imagine combining the brilliant technological advances of today with timeless people skills, and consider the potential of future generations. Whether you are entering, re-entering or transitioning in the world of business or, just want to get ahead, consider specific ways to achieve leadership distinction through nuances.

Consultative 56

Consultative Skills CFO Competitive Advantage 56

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

This, in turn, is triggering a shift in the perceived role of the CFO — from bean counters to planters of seed corn. Redefining the CFO role. After all, it’s the CFO who typically sets expectations about growth to investors and then allocates resources to ensure their organizations deliver. Insight Center.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. It’s a core part of the CFO’s work: Last year Oka personally met with 145 investors and his IR team collectively met with more than 500.

Company 8

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. A charismatic CEO, imported from outside the industry, was making bold, expensive investments in new markets.

CFO 8

CFO Innovation CEO Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The research, involving over 5,000 B2B purchase participants across 12 industries, uncovered three mistakes that undermine firms’ content marketing. Consider Xerox Technology Business, a division that provides enterprise printing capabilities to various industries, including schools. What does a better approach look like?

B2B 8

B2B Content Marketing Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 9

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. Some recent CEO appointments in these industries include Yahoo!’s

CEO 10

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

“What’s good for General Motors is good for America” has been derided endlessly as a joke of a slogan from the military-industrial complex – but this time I sincerely mean it. She is a clearly a team player with the support of her peers, such as CFO Dan Ammann, promoted to president working with Barra.

Engineering 9

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

” Yet business leaders who took the CHRO role, including Quinn, report it is the most impactful role in their career, and many would not accept an organizational leadership position that didn’t come with the CHRO role. Of course, they haven’t had a chance to think it through, but that’s the first reaction.”

Quinn 10

Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world. Recognize that a diverse leadership team delivers superior long-term performance. Diversity Multinational Leadership'

Team 9

Team Diversity CFO TSR 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Wilson was an industry outsider (he had previously worked as a management consultant and the head of corporate planning at an airline), whom Stemberg described as a “provocateur” and an “in-your-face kind of guy.” So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

As Keith Sherin, then GE’s CFO put it, “This is where the growth is. Today most if not all industries are impacted by digitization—mobile technology, big data, and the like. Decision making Leadership' It was the first time a vice chair would be based in an emerging market. We are shifting our center of gravity.”

P&L 8

P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In research spanning 20 years, we closely examined 36 companies in eight industries to find out why companies are struggling. Insurance, a very analytics-intensive industry, saw nearly half of CAOs changing roles over an 18-month period.). This is about more than technology. But poor ROI is only part of the story.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Recent data shows the majority of companies worldwide (71 percent) don’t have a clearly defined strategy for grooming and developing women as company leaders, according to a 2011 Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer. Internal Candidates Are Regularly Tapped to Fill Open Roles.

Career 247

Career Company Software Handbook 247

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Truly strategic leaderships — and their boards — should treat Brin's "worst idea" as their most provocative thought experiment for revisiting how they recognize and value data. Does our data suggest exciting investment options in adjacent or complementary industries? That's the essence of the Big Data business case.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Cost cutting is difficult in any industry, but it’s particularly challenging in healthcare, where organizations are simultaneously undergoing a major transformation to improve care and the patient experience. Banner’s leaders made a conscious choice to eschew industry benchmarks in the cost initiative.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

As I explain in my book, The Hidden Wealth of Customers , HDS marketing executives Brian Householder and Asim Zaheer took, in effect, the Founding Fathers' approach to assert leadership in the conversation. HDS put Hu Yoshida , its highly-respected chief technology officer, in the limelight to attract high-level audiences.

How To 12

How To Chief Technology Officer Audience Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. Think of platforms and networks in our digital age as the equivalent of electricity and motors in the industrial age. After all, there is a multibillion-dollar industry focused on customer relationship management. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These fears aren’t unfounded: managers across industries have cost targets and technology enables lower-value tasks to move from people to machines. But we believe an obsession mainly on technology’s potential for cost-cutting is misguided. Any CFO will look at multiple ways to reinvest financial capital.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency CFO Technology Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Effective leadership and management across these areas is possible, but not without without providing CIOs with the proper support structures and instituting necessary organizational alignment. Chief "Innovation" Officer: Looking for disruptive technologies to drive innovation. Why Can''t a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

CIO 8

CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. At one multibillion-euro industrial equipment firm, for example, sales, marketing, and maintenance managers simply couldn’t get beyond the belief that a smart online parts catalog was all they and their customers needed. Recommenders are digital platforms for virtuous cycles. Insight Center.

Engineering 8

Engineering Company White Paper Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8